Rebecca Shatsky: The Case for Focused Palliative Care Education in Oncology Training

Rebecca Shatsky shared on X/Twitter:

“The Case for Focused Palliative Care Education in Oncology Training | Journal of Clinical Oncology.

100% agree about the lack of training in this, and how it needs to change. Those of us who are currently practicing and skilled in empathic patient centered communication of bad news aren’t necessarily good at it because we had great training in it sadly.

The generation of practicing oncs who are skilled at this need to be teaching fellows, because this can be learned! Very important for oncs to LEARN how to be more empathic and careful with wording. As someone who takes care of the dying every day. Every. Word. Matters.”

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Rebecca Shatsky is an Associate Professor at UC San Diego Health, Breast Medical Oncology Co-Team Leader, Scientific Director of the Inflammatory and Triple Negative Breast Cancer Program. She is a member of the NCCN guideline panel for Genetic/High-Risk Assessment of Breast, Ovarian and Pancreatic Cancer and the panel for the treatment of Cancer-Associated Pain.

Her work has been published in JAMA Oncology, Cancer Cell and Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, among others. Dr. Shatsky is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.